top tech tidbits for thursday, October 26, 2006
there will be two mailings this week, this one containing the full
newsletter, and a notification announcement to let everybody know the newsletter
has been provuced. I'll be curious to see if some people get the short,
link-free message and don't get the newsletter.
1) You can freely download some 300 movie scripts, a good way to know
what is going on in the movie.
2)
Peter verhoeven has written an article on how to make iPod and some other
mp3 players accessible by installing the Rockbox firmware.
3) speaking of mp3 players, an interesting site to keep up with
what's new and is not iPod, visit this one:
4) there's been a lot of talk about the Hamilton Beach talking
microwave. One vendor selling it Independent Living Aids. On this
page you read about the unit and can hear a sample of the voice.
5) Gordon Kent of Dancing Dots has recorded an informative and
entertaining audio demo showing how he uses the wireless TranzPort remote
control device to create multi-track sound recordings using Cakewalk
SONAR.
and find the text that says: Listen to an audio demo by Gordon
Kent.
6) wizzard Software has created Wizztones, a program that lets Skype
users assign different ringtones or voice messages to different skype contacts,
so that you can easily know who is calling.
7) Jamal Mazrui has released the initial version of Layout by Code
for .NET development, a library of convenience functions for easier development
of accessible graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in .NET 2.0 languages.
Here is the source code:
and here is a console-mode program to demonstrate some of its
capabilities:
8) read this post from the Desert skies about Mocrosoft's final
release of its windows Defender antispyware package for users of windows xp sP
2.
9) HumanWare has made an audio and video demonstration of its Daisy
book player victor reader ClassicX available online.
10) the free International Online Symposium on Diabetes will run for
five hours, with five different presentations, on
wednesday,
8 November starting at 18:00 gMT.
11) the US social Security Administration has created a web site to
inform its workers and contractors about the accessibility requirements of
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation act.
12) the latest installment of The Ranger station contains a good summary of
the current situation with regard to the accessibility of Internet Explorer 7.0
with various access technologies.
13) If you want to know more about RSS and find out about
how to track RSS feeds via e-mail, sound computing Article 27 discusses
this matter and reviews two free e-mail RSS readers. Subscriptions cost
only $9 for a 50-article package.
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